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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. As explained in "The House, from Cellar to Garret . . .," what is the main benefit of a house?
(a) To shelter daydreaming.
(b) To define boundaries.
(c) To create cities.
(d) To protect property.

2. According to Bachelard's topoanalysis, what term can be used to describe city apartments?
(a) Ultra-cellars.
(b) Superimposed boxes.
(c) Superimposed cellars.
(d) Ultra-boxes.

3. What description does Bachelard give to Bergson's drawer metaphor?
(a) Dry rationalism.
(b) Dry poetics.
(c) Pop psychology.
(d) Negative objectivity.

4. What is the ability to imagine?
(a) A method of filling gaps in scientific understanding.
(b) A symptom of mental illness.
(c) A major power of human nature.
(d) A waste of the intelligent mind.

5. Who wrote of "La Redousse"?
(a) Bosco.
(b) Rilke.
(c) Bachelard.
(d) Baudelaire.

6. How is a cathedral similar to a snail shell in the opinion of Bachelard?
(a) Both seem born of their surroundings.
(b) Quasimodo considered the cathedral to be claustrophobic, like a snail shell.
(c) Both are constructed of sturdy materials.
(d) Quasimodo inhabited the cathedral, with its nooks and crannies, as a snail inhabits its shell.

7. Which is the least significant element in the composition of a poem in Bachelard's opinion?
(a) Emotion.
(b) Verse.
(c) Overall structure.
(d) The isolated poetic image.

8. The works of Henri Bosco feature what areas, featuring connected passages with the possibility of escape?
(a) Super-cellars.
(b) Ultra-towers.
(c) Ultra-cellars.
(d) Mega-attics.

9. Bachelard believes that rooms and houses are psychological diagrams writers and poets use to analyze what?
(a) Dreams.
(b) Intimacy.
(c) Architecture.
(d) Poetic structure.

10. Poetry stimulates what sort of response in the reader in the opinion of Bachelard?
(a) A forgotten image.
(b) Rhythmic thoughts.
(c) Appreciation for rhymes.
(d) Fear of isolation.

11. Bachelard, expanding on the work of Rilke, proposes that a box top, like the cover of a pot, may do what?
(a) Create deceptions.
(b) Make the world get along better.
(c) Lead to future discovery.
(d) Maintain secrecy.

12. Who, according to Bachelard, is able to enter the hidden space of the extreme?
(a) The poet.
(b) The scientist.
(c) The architect.
(d) The psychoanalyst.

13. Using a metaphor, a happy household can be compared to what, according to the author?
(a) A flourishing nest.
(b) A child's drawing.
(c) A poem.
(d) A soul at peace.

14. What is Bachelard's metaphor of the chrysalis?
(a) From the childhood chrysalis, the butterfly moves to a new house.
(b) From the unnoticed chrysalis, the flamboyant butterfly flies.
(c) From the cottage chrysalis, the winged manor flies.
(d) From the sturdy chrysalis, the delicate butterfly emerges.

15. What is a dream house for Bachelard?
(a) A house accessible only in dreams.
(b) A home one dreams of owning or a home one purchases and alters.
(c) A house that exists only in the poetic mind.
(d) The largest house in the area.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who claimed that only the image can keep up with the changes of nature?

2. The philosopher Minkowski conducted an analysis of what?

3. When should metaphor be used, in Bachelard's opinion?

4. What do poets create, according to Bachelard, to transcend conflicted night dreams?

5. For Bachelard, topophilia can be described in what way?

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